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Project and portfolio management helps organizations improve visibility and control across varied portfolios, align spending with strategic priorities, and drive team collaboration to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Effective PPM solutions need to provide organizations of different sizes and maturity levels with the right tools to ensure that teams can successfully collaborate to deliver projects on time and realize their anticipated return on investment (ROI).

Even departments within a large organization might have divergent PPM requirements; for example, a marketing team might not require the same rigor in a PPM solution as an IT business unit.

To stay competitive, select an EPM solution which provides executives, portfolio analysts, managers, and team members with productivity tools to effectively manage all work throughout its life cycle, and to ensure alignment with an organization’s business strategy.

We interview Arpan Shah to gain Microsoft's perspective on Enterprise Project Management.